Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be?
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Let's get all IT people together and fight through the hassle to help friends and family switch to Linux
I've already switched my mom and grandma to Linux, and I've personally only got 1 PC still on Windows. Its days are numbered though.
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Ok, write me a check for a new one.
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No, the police will show up at your door on October 11th and arrest you on the spot.
If you're in the US you'll be sent to El Salvador. If you're anywhere else you'll be sent to the US, receive a few tattoos, then El Salvador.
Can I pick the tattoos?
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Ms will stop supporting windows 10. Windows 11 has hardware requirements for a specific security chip and processors with specific features, so upgrading components isn’t an option.
If you have an old pc you can’t easily upgrade. Theres ways of forcing it to work but it’s not supported.
A lot of businesses will be getting rid of their old pcs so they dont need to deal with the hassle.
Linux will still support and run on the older hardware, so a lot of people are expecting used hardware prices to drop.
And thanks to Proton you can now do pretty much everything that you can do on Windows. Unless you do graphics design.
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Can I pick the tattoos?
In soviet US, tattoos pick you
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And thanks to Proton you can now do pretty much everything that you can do on Windows. Unless you do graphics design.
That’s definitely been true in the past, but the gap’s narrowed a lot. GIMP (with plugins) and Krita cover most Photoshop-style workflows, and Inkscape does a pretty good job with vector work. For many graphic design tasks, Linux has solid native tools now—just takes a bit of adjustment if you’re used to Adobe.
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I really want to put Linux on my gaming PC, but I'm doubtful I can get my Rift S working on there.
Apparently there is an openxr driver for it, though, so I suppose I should at least give it a shot.
There's absolutely no way I'm going to win11, though.
Nobara or Pop! OS would be good choices.
Yeah, VR is still catching up, but I feel like (dual) booting to Win 10 just for specific purposes would greatly reduce the risk.
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Can I pick the tattoos?
You can choose between Microsoft, Tesla, Google, Amazon, or Blackrock.
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Microsoft is getting billions for AI datacenters (they're now turning back on) why do you buy me a fucking new PC Microsoft
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Hot take from an IT guy: save your important data, make a plain vanilla W11 boot USB (nothing fancy, no Rufus tricks), wipe your hard drive to zeroes, and install W11 like normal. I've reimaged a ton of older PCs and literally never seen it not work. My 10 year old Optiplex, supposedly ineligible for W11, runs W11 just fine.
Microsoft might someday break it, sure. That's not new. Microsoft products were always, in practice, available to us at Microsoft's pleasure. This is the same company that allows massgrave to exist on git because they'd rather we pirate MS Office than allow LibreOffice any oxygen. We'll probably be fine.
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That excellent gag is how I discovered hbomberguy some years ago
What's especially funny is that he didn't even script that, he just came up with it on the spot. And now it's the joke he's most known for.
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I really want to put Linux on my gaming PC, but I'm doubtful I can get my Rift S working on there.
Apparently there is an openxr driver for it, though, so I suppose I should at least give it a shot.
There's absolutely no way I'm going to win11, though.
I got my meta quest 2 working on Linux, so you should definitely just try
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I really want to put Linux on my gaming PC, but I'm doubtful I can get my Rift S working on there.
Apparently there is an openxr driver for it, though, so I suppose I should at least give it a shot.
There's absolutely no way I'm going to win11, though.
Your best shot is with Monado, which supports the Rift S: https://monado.freedesktop.org/
I only have an Index, so I can't speak for how well it works or how easy it is to setup.
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Nobara or Pop! OS would be good choices.
Yeah, VR is still catching up, but I feel like (dual) booting to Win 10 just for specific purposes would greatly reduce the risk.
I'd just be scared of windows trying to clobber my nix partition.
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I got my meta quest 2 working on Linux, so you should definitely just try
I did read that there were some input issues with the d-pads not working, but that was also 2 years ago so it could've been fixed by now.
So you're right, I should!
Pretty sure I've got an old drive around somewhere that I could toss it on.
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That’s definitely been true in the past, but the gap’s narrowed a lot. GIMP (with plugins) and Krita cover most Photoshop-style workflows, and Inkscape does a pretty good job with vector work. For many graphic design tasks, Linux has solid native tools now—just takes a bit of adjustment if you’re used to Adobe.
GIMP is nowhere close to Photoshop in usability. Don't know about others.
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And thanks to Proton you can now do pretty much everything that you can do on Windows. Unless you do graphics design.
I have people complaining about simple UI changes. Proton isn’t going to fix that.
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When will Commerce Secretary Sputnik shill for Windows 11 on Fox?
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Nobara or Pop! OS would be good choices.
Yeah, VR is still catching up, but I feel like (dual) booting to Win 10 just for specific purposes would greatly reduce the risk.
